The FlightGear session responsible for doing tower will do nothing more than display aircraft in the multiplayer session, flown by other players. FlightGear currently has no code for AI traffic like in FS2004, and most of the fanatic simmers do their flying online, with real people manning towers and airports. I think it could be possible to create a program that runs "fake" multiplayer aircraft (similar to AI traffic), but that's not part of a flight simulator, more of a traffic simulator. Towering on VATSIM or FlightGear multiplayer sessions (with the aid of the Google map) is very doable.
Peter Gervais schreef: > The issues as i see it is being able to simulate not one but many > aircraft as seen from the tower. Tower sims also support various > ground based vehicle such as fueling trucks , service vehicles etc ... > > > At 12:16 PM 10/24/2006, you wrote: >> I think it's pretty possible. You're gonna need extra software for the >> radar screens, but I think you can already connect FlightGear to a >> multiplayer session as an observer. Position yourself on the place where >> your tower is, and the outside view is pretty much what you need. For >> the radar screens, it differs on which network you're connecting to. >> There is lots of software available for either FS2004 multiplayer >> sessions, VATSIM, or IVAO. Not sure about ATC software for FlightGear >> sessions, but that might be one we could look into. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
